There's no one we'd rather hear from when building up to the next Olympic year than our pod friends from across the pond! Jill and Alison join us from Keep the Flame Alive to discuss all things Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy New Olympic Year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
She's had it all - a medal laden elite track career - coaching - overseeing the most successful Para Athletics team ever, building on the success of London 2012 Paralympics - to now Performance Director at UK Athletics. It's "definitely" a dream job says our latest guest on Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy. We finish 2025, by looking back with Paula Dunn and what's in stores in 2026 through to LA 2028 Olympics and Paralympics! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The biggest Olympic figure skating team for Great Britain and N Ireland since 1988 Calgary Games! 8 names have been confirmed for Team GB including World bronze medalists Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson (who you can hear from in previous episodes!) but in this episode we catch up with Anastasia Vaipan-Law & Luke Digby - the new British Pairs contestants! The flame is on its way to the San Siro for the Opening Ceremony in February - we have a special report from Greece - and the rest of the News from the Games inc Ice Hockey, Curling, Snowboard and Skiiing as well as cross country, marathon, Taekwondo and shooting! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A lasting legacy is the dream of Scott Meenagh as he prepares for a third and final Winter Paralympics in Nordic skiing. The former paratrooper became Britain’s first ever World Championship medalist for GB Snowsport in 2023, bagged a World Cup bronze earlier this year and hopes for a place on the podium when selected for Milano Cortina 2026. But his hope now is he won’t be the last successful British Para Nordic skier. This has been a special second season of episodes looking ahead to the Winter Games in early 2026 - make sure you download & follow for more - and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Three British skiers in the men’s world top thirty after two World Cups this year and ahead of the forthcoming Winter Olympics. There’s a real chance the GB Snowsport Alpine Boys could create a little bit of history at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games. In this fourth episode of the season, we hear from all three - make sure you download & follow for more - and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Since Beijing 2022 Olympics, and despite funding cuts, GB Snowsport has delivered on the global stage, with athletes securing World Cup and World Championship medals, to the point the 2022/23 season was declared the most successful ever! Freestyle snowboarder Mia Brookes and free-ski’s Kirsty Muir played their part in that success. In fact the entire British Park and Pipe Skiing and Snowboarding team are on a roll ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics. We want to out the secret of their success with a special Great British Bosses episode with Head Coaches Jamie Matthew & Ben Kinnear. This is Episode 3 of Season 2 with GB Snowsport - make sure you download & follows and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Season Two, Episode 2 and to be fair we could've called it another comebacks! With Menna Fitzpatrick returning from injury for the Winter Paralympics and Katie Guest looking to finally make her Paralympic debut after missing Beijing through covid! But we wanted to focus on the unique partnership of this World Cup winning World Championship duo, ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics with GB Snowsport We’ve more specials to come - so make sure you download & follow and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Welcome to another special season of podcasts with GB Snowsport ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In this latest episode, we hear from two of Britain’s most experienced freestyle skiers - Gus Kenworthy and Kirsty Muir who are at either ends of their careers - and the different comebacks they’ve made in the last year. We’ve 4 more specials to come - so make sure you download & follows and you can also listen back to our first GB Snowsport season too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Olympian from Rio 2016, Relay bronze medalist at the World Athletics Championships, three time European sprint relay champion and individual bronze in 2014 and two time Commonwealth Games gold medallist in the 4x100m relay. But for some youngsters Harry Aikines-Aryeety maybe better known as Nitro from the revamped Gladiators and the 'king of the pecks' on the dance floor of Strictly Come Dancing. He's now teamed up with HSBC to encourage you to look at your finances and investments - so what better way to ask him about his future and his return to athletics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's nearly here - the flame's about to be lit, they're testing the new Sliding Centre on Cortina and Britain's got high hopes of Ice Dance success not seen since well you know how! In fact two couples will represent Team GB in Milan in the Figure Skating Ice Dance category - we expect current world number ones Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson but also Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez - they join us on the pod to tell us more about themselves! We also have the latest News from the Games and just want does it mean to be the alternate in Curling? We ask Team GB's Fay Henderson This is Anything but Footy - we're moving onto Milan and looking ahead to LA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Next year, the first Olympics qualification spots are available for LA 2028 in gymnastics! It follows more gold, silver and bronzes being won by British Gymnastics at recent World Championships. We ask Performance Director Dave Hart about the success and the challenges he's dealt with since arriving in the organisation in 2022. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
History maker, Olympic and World championship medalist - now wife, mum and wannabe sports broadcaster. Laura Deas won Skeleton bronze in the 2018 Winter Olympics with Team GB colleague Lizzie Yarnold retaining her gold! But 4 years later was a different story. Now retired, after becoming world champion post Beijing 2022, we talk about support, sacrifice and sports opportunities of the future! PLUS with THREE MONTHS TO GO how will GB get on in Cortina in the Skeleton & Bob - Laura gives us her medal prediction! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Commonwealth Games tickets for Glasgow 2026 are now on sale. 10 sports, 6 para sports, 215 gold medals to be won across one summer in one city! We hear why you need to be there from Commonwealth weightlifting champion Emily Campbell and Scotland's very own world champion Jake Wightman - named by Team Scotland for the 'Mile' this week! & if you want more details about tickets for the Games check out Glasgow 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Ice Queen - not our words - but our guests very own in her new autobiography. With 100 days to go before Milano Cortina 2026, we want to find out more about the person behind the Olympic champion curler and February's Chef De Mission for Team GB. This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK (and we may have only done Eve last year but this episode is totally different - promise!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Boxing is back at the Olympics - if it ever went away! As you'll hear in this episode of Great British Bosses - the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - with chair Jason Glover, thanks to GB Boxing, and subsequently World Boxing, the sport will maintain its place in the Games for LA 2028. We also hear about the recent World Boxing Championships in Liverpool and the frustrating of the lack of coverage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A team of ten British men and women are in action in the first ever World Gymnastics Championships in South East Asia. We hear from four of the men's team from Jakarta in Indonesia, three who were also at the Paris Olympics last year - Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse as well as debutant Alex Yolshin-Cash. The gymnasts are just going for individual medals at these World Champs rather than any team medals - Abi Martin and Ruby Evans the only sole representatives from the GB women's team who finished 4th at the Olympics - we catch up with them and former British junior champion Shantae-Eve Amankwaah Event schedule Sunday 19th – Men’s Qualifying Monday 20th Men’s Qualifying (cont.) and Women’s Qualifying Tuesday 21st – Women’s Qualifying Wednesday 22nd – Men’s all-around final Thursday 23rd – Women’s all-around final Friday 24th – Apparatus finals (Men’s floor, pommel and rings. Women’s vault and bars) Saturday 25th - Apparatus finals (Men’s vault, parallel bars and high bar. Women’s beam and floor) Follow British Gymnastics anytime to find out more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A world junior champion, a Commonwealth Games double medalist and winning an Olympic bronze medal in her third Games at Paris 2024. Just some of the many highlights on the track for our guest in this episode of Anything but Footy, Jodie Williams, who announced her retirement from athletics after those Olympics. But that was just the start for the self confessed “ideas-oholic” as she’s now founder of her own company ‘Listen Journal’ as well as director for Ugandan charity Femlead. A must listen for any athlete about what comes next after busting your gut on the track! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What do you do as an Olympian who's spent 20 years getting to the Games? Go again or enjoy your incredible achievement? And what if your sport is about to potentially change the way medals are won at an Olympics? These are all questions our latest guest is grappling with - as well as winning medals this summer! Team GB and British Sailing's Hannah Snellgrove is our latest special guest on Great British Bosses - where we go behind the scenes of sport in the UK! Also, with LA approaching, whose Hollywood Hall of Fame star would you go too? It's just one of the many things Hannah tells us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bear with us on this one - we mentioned we're covering some of the British stars in this season who we've had the delight of covering in the podcast and on radio for the past few weeks and months etc. Well, in Great British Bosses, we always say we get the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - so who better to catch up with than a former GB athlete who's now a World Athletics Championship medalist! Julia Paternain from Cambridge representing Uruguay won a historic bronze in the women's Marathon in Tokyo in only her second her 26.2 miler! She's brilliant - enjoy! 🏟 📸 ©️WorldAthletics/Getty Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Our spin off season is back with a season of specials featuring Great British Bosses and stars. Some we have covered for years, others are brand new and making a name for themselves. Great British Bosses has always been the behind the scenes conversation of sport in the UK - that continues with this episode with world champion, three time Olympic sprinter, broadcaster and now CEO of his own company 'Adam Gemili Fitness' Enjoy and please share as these athletes stories deserve to be told. Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We thought the phrase brutal sport - made by Olympic medalist Ollie Wynne Griffith in his insta 'retirement' post - summed up a lot of what we're covering in this episode of the Anything but Footy podcast. Ukraine think it's a brutal decision to allow Russia and Belarus back into the Paralympic movement. The treatment of players at the Ryder cup was beyond brutal? And the brutal heat and humidity made winning gold silver and bronze at the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai even more special for GB Rowing! We round up ALL the action and also have News from the Games including the latest record win for Eilish McColgan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sydney is set to stage the Canoe Slalom World Championships, the biggest event down under for the sport since Sydney 2000! Great Britain has had a record breaking World Cup series - we hear from C1 and K1 champion Kimberley Woods on what's gone right this season! What went wrong for British Athletics at Tokyo 2025? The first time in 25 years nearly that GB & NI haven't won a gold medal at a World Athletics Championships - we review the setback! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's not quite another summer Olympics, but our Autumn World Championships season continues! After the World Athletics Championships we now focus on the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai. How can British Rowing do in China after winning the shortened World Cup series? We ask 4 of the crew - Matt Haywood, Heidi Long, Josh O'Brien and cox Tom Bryce! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The third fastest British man ever over 800m. That's Max Burgin the 23 year old from Halifax, who made the Olympic final last year and now has set his own personal best while racing the Paris champion at the London Diamond League. Hear from him on hopes for these World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The latest stars of the British 400m scene, who could all wins medals at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this week. In this episode, we hear from Matthew Hudson Smith on everything since that silver in Paris, how Amber Anning won't be running everything this time in Tokyo and new kid on the block but at his second World Champs Charlie Dobson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The World Athletic Championships 2025 bring the season down on another year of track and field. Great Britain and NI will be out to at least match their 10 medals they won in Paris last summer at the Olympics - but will the conditions in Tokyo favour them? In this episode we hear from captain Morgan Lake, former 1500m champion Jake Wightman and 2017 relay gold medalist and now media pundit Adam Gemili! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
7 World Championships now for Dina Asher Smith and we're delighted she's back on the podcast as we continue our preview of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo! Brought back some memories for us too as you'll hear! Relay team-mate Daryll Neita is also on the show talking amongst other things her Daryll Diaries and Michael's latest appearance! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In an Autumn of World Championships of Olympic sport, from Rowing to Gymnastics, we're looking ahead to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo from September 13th. World Champion Josh Kerr is out to defend his 1500m title and is not planning on giving it up without a fight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In an Autumn of World Championships of Olympic sport, from Rowing to Gymnastics, we're focusing on these next few episodes on the World Athletics Championships. Our guest in this episode is Georgia Hunter Bell - the 1500m Olympic medalist now focusing on the 800m in Tokyo.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Geraint Thomas the greatest ever Welsh cyclist jumped off his bike for the final time infront of his home fans in Cardiff. Is here the greatest Welsh sportsperson ever? We hear from him and discuss! Have you say by following this pod, and all our Anything but Footy socials! Michael's passed his fitness test for the Greta North Run - we have the latest action and hear from one of the winners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
